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The Hectic took shape in Houston, TX. A collection of accomplished musicians with diverse styles and influences whose musical alchemy has been characterized as Nine Inch Nails meets Pantera. Let’s call it “Texas Industrial Alt-Metal”. With a cast of seven the unforgettable live show is a colossal event. Full of action and intrigue, it unfolds like a psychological thriller starring the front man’s brooding persona and twisted vocals, the bottomless crunchy rhythm guitar, leads that move from hypnotic to grandiose, a creeping undercurrent of samples and electronica, the shredding cellist, all piled on the rhythm section’s brazenly untamed bass lines and storming drummer who always brings down the house. The band writes what they feel at the moment, there are no imposed boundaries on the music. The Hectic unapologetically sprawls across musical genres like the city they’re from sprawls across Southeast Texas. Download & Print - Complete 1 Page Artist Profile Download & Print - The Hectic Stage Plot
Chris Harkness (Houston Music Business Guru/God/Legend) "...After decades in the business I don't get excited about many bands but I'm excited about The Hectic...I have done many shows in the past with industrial and metal touring bands including NIN, Ministry, Pantera, and Marilyn Manson, I would put The Hectic up with any of them - the show was that impressive...In my humble opinion, The Hectic is one of the most exciting new bands to come out of Houston since ZZ Top emerged in 1969." Rhonda Merideth (Houston Music Review - The Examiner) "WARNING. This article contains a dose of Texas Industrial Alt-Metal...or The Hectic for short... The crowd was skeptical...at first. In fact, everyone was asking the same question "What is going on here?". When band member DJ Hard Core came onstage at The Scout Bar last Saturday night with a green laser shooting out from the side of his head that pointed above the audience and scanned the room, there wasn't a sound. A hush of wonderment and slight smiles of expectation were on each face. Yeah, they knew they were about to get a show. Then came the eruption from behind the drums that told our hearts when to beat. Drummer Ken Pride was pounding his custom double kicks as Ronnie Tinsley, The Hectic's confident frontman, unleashed his powerful vocals. The crowd was instantly up on their feet. Fists were raised into the air as guitarists Chris Owen and Kevin Reed, and bassist Danny Acker provided a rock solid back up to Tinsley's vocals. In that "Automatic Freedom", a roomful of The Hectic fans were born. The Hectic are self described as "Texas Industrial Alt-Metal". Let's just say a cross between Nine Inch Nails and Pantera with a little Slipknot for good measure. While The Hectic is considered comparable to those national bands, they are truly in a league of their own in the Houston music scene. This band puts on an incredible show and you are left when it is done wishing it wasn't over..." Chris Baldauf (Exerpt from the Houston Chronicle - Handstamp Review of HBC CD Compilation Featuring "Rise Above" - By The Hectic) "...The album's strongest track, Rise by the Hectic, jumps out with shrill Motorhead style riffs, but swerves immediately to something even darker and more menacing, sounding like Pantera wrestling Linkin Park. The engaging and varied production keeps you wondering where exactly the song is going to go, and on an album where everything tends to bleed into everything else, this seems an almost magical feat..." Andrew Perkins \| Space City Rocks Contributing Writer (Review of HBC CD Compilation Featuring "Rise Above" - By The Hectic) "...Hectic's Rise is harder than the previous bands, less nü-metal and more hardcore, with a wicked double-vocal attack that actually doesn't sound like a gimmick..."
Chris Owen - Guitar & Vocals Cory Simpson - Turntables & Noise Ken Pride - Drums & Percussion Kevin Reed - Guitar Marilyn Tovy - Cello Ronnie Tinsley - Vocals Danny Acker - Bass
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The Hectic /Thee Heck·tick/ Relig., N, V, & Adj. - 1. Often characterized as a group of revolutionary artist who actively seek to perform their music or art in such a manner as to not conform to any standard practices, required formats, or so called "popular beliefs", while selfishly fullfilling their own inherent needs and desires. 2. placing ones music or art first and foremost above man made populist desires. 3. an institution, unwaivering on principle beliefs and unaffected by extermal sources. 4. Texas Industrial Alt-Metal. (See Also "Killer")
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